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Chronic wasting disease: a model for prion transmission via saliva and urine
Author(s):Haley, Nicholas James
Date Issued:2010
Format:born digital; doctoral dissertations
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Elucidating mother to offspring transmission of chronic wasting disease using a transgenic mouse model
Author(s):Willingham, Kassandra
Date Issued:2016
Format:born digital; masters theses
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE), or prion disease, of free-ranging and farmed cervids (deer, elk and moose). CWD is the only TSE in a wildlife population, which was initially ...
Role of plants as an environmental reservoir of chronic wasting disease prions, The
Author(s):Ortega, Aimee Elise
Date Issued:2016
Format:born digital; masters theses
Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSEs) are a group of diseases caused by an abnormal version, PrPRES, of the normal cellular host protein prion protein (Prnp) termed PrPC. Disease is fatal resulting in amyloid ...
Longitudinal characterization of peripheral prion pathogenesis in Syrian hamsters experimentally inoculated with hamster-adapted Transmissible Mink Encephalopathy
Author(s):Lee, Erin
Date Issued:2017
Format:born digital; masters theses
Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSEs) are a group of infectious, neurodegenerative diseases affecting animals, including humans. Caused by misfolded proteins called prions, TSEs are characterized by a long, ...
Western equine encephalitis virus: development and application of a new world alphavirus transducing system
Author(s):Stauft, Charles Brandon
Date Issued:2012
Format:born digital; doctoral dissertations
A recombinant western equine encephalitis virus (WEEV) was generated that expressed firefly luciferase (FLUC) as a marker of infection. In vivo imaging technology was used to visualize bioluminescence in the context of ...
Occurrence of CWD prions and their risk to humans, The
Author(s):Davenport, Kristen Anne
Date Issued:2017
Format:born digital; doctoral dissertations
Zoonotic diseases are often caused by viruses or bacteria, which adapt to new species with changes to their nucleic acid sequence. The etiologic agent of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), the prion, is a ...
Molecular epidemiology of leprosy: an update
Author(s):Avanzi, Charlotte; Singh, Pushpendra; Truman, Richard W; Suffys, Philip N
Date Issued:2020-12
Format:born digital; articles
Molecular epidemiology investigations are notoriously challenging in the leprosy field mainly because the inherent characteristics of the disease as well as its yet uncultivated causative agents, Mycobacterium leprae and ...